UMC Hosts Fourth Technology-Based Elderhostel Session August 3-9
From August 3-9, over twenty people from several states will spend a week at UMC learning about such varied topics as nutrition, quilting, the stock market, the Internet and other computer technologies. They are taking part in the fourth in a series of four summer sessions of Elderhostel.
The theme for this week-long experience is "Day and Night with a Laptop: Exploring Computer Programs." During their stay, each participant will be issued a notebook computer. Participants will use the computer to learn the basics of e-mail, the Internet, and the Microsoft Windows suite of programs: Word (word processing), Excel (spreadsheets), Access (databases),and Powerpoint (presentations). Other sessions focus on computer technology applications such as the presentation of a computerized family tree maker and using the Internet to access invenstment and stcok market information. Spread throughout the computer sessions are other sessions dealing with the history and technology of quilting and field trips to the Polk County Museum and Dahlgren's Sunflower Processing Plant in Crookston.
UMC is well suited for such a technology-based experience because of its distinctive status as the "Original Thinkpad University" and its extensively "wired" infrastructure. Classrooms are wired to a local area network, which, in turn, connects the entire campus to the Internet. Participants can even access the Internet from the rooms in the campus residence halls where they stay for the week.
For further information contact the University of Minnesota, Crookston Office of Outreach and Continuing Education at 218-281-8681 or 1-800-232-6466.
Elderhostel IV: August 3-9, 1997
Agenda
Note: All meals and breaks will be
in Morsels except where noted. Need a campus map?
Sunday, August 3
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Registration in Brink Hall
5:30 p.m. Dinner in Brown Dining Room, Conference Center 2nd Floor
6:00 p.m. Introductions
Monday, August 4
7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Breakfast in Brown Dining Room
8:30 to 10:00 a.m. Orientation & Computer Distribution--computer set-up, Dr. Barney Selzler, Robbie McGurran, and Vern Markey, Dowell Hall 103
10:00 to 10:30 a.m. Break in Morsels
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon Windows ’95, Dr. Barney Selzler, Dowell Hall 103
12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Lunch in Brown Dining Room
1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Internet, Vern Markey, Dowell Hall 103
2:30 to 3:00 p.m. Break in Morsels
2:45 p.m. Group Picture on the mall. Meet in Morsels
3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Family Tree Maker Demonstration, Connie Batten, Dowell Hall 109 or Computer Lab, Dowell Hall 103
5:30 to 6:00 p.m. Dinner in Brown Dining Room
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Elderhostel Experiences in Morsels
Tuesday, August 5
7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 to 10:00 a.m. Microsoft Word, Dr. Barney Selzler, Dowell Hall 103
10:00 to 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon Microsoft Excel, Robbie McGurran, Dowell Hall 103
12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Internet, Vern Markey, Dowell Hall 103
2:30 to 2:50 p.m. Break
2:50 p.m. Meet at bus in front of Conference Center
3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Field Trip: Dahlgren & Company Inc. (Sunflower Processing Company)
5:30 to 6:00 p.m. Dinner
6:30 to 8:30 Computer Lab, Dowell Hall Room 103
Wednesday, August 6
7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 to 10:00 a.m. Microsoft Word, Dr. Barney Selzler, Dowell Hall 103
10:00 to 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon Microsoft Excel, Robbie McGurran, Dowell Hall 103
12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Lunch, Guest: Don Sargeant, Chancellor of the University of Minnesota, Crookston
1:00 to 2:30 p.m. PowerPoint Demonstration and Lesson, Vern Markey, Dowell Hall 103
2:30 to 3:00 p.m. Break in Morsels
2:50 p.m. Meet at bus in front of Conference Center
3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Crookston Historical Museum Tour or Computer Lab, Dowell Hall 103
5:30 to 6:00 p.m. Dinner
6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Quilting in the 90's, Kathe Lemmerman, Dowell Hall 103
Thursday, August 7
7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 to 10:00 a.m. Microsoft Word, Dr. Barney Selzler, Dowell Hall 103
10:00 to 10:30 a.m.Break
10:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. UMC Bookstore is open Bede Hall
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon PowerPoint Demonstration and Lesson, Vern Markey, Dowell Hall 103
12:00 to 1:00 Lunch
12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. UMC Bookstore is open Bede Hall
1:00 to 2:30 Microsoft Excel, Robbie McGurran, Dowell Hall 103
2:30 to 3:00 Break
3:00 to 4:30 Bonsai Tree Demonstration, Christo Robberts, Dowell Hall 103
5:30 to 6:00 Dinner
6:30 to 8:30 Computer Lab, Dowell Hall Room 103
Friday, August 8
7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 to 10:00 a.m. Office '97 Demonstration, Robbie McGurran, Dowell Hall 103
10:00 to 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 Integrating Excel and PowerPoint, Robbie McGurran, Dowell Hall 103
12:00 to 1:00 Lunch
1:00 to 2:00 CuSee-Me Demonstration (Video Conferencing), Rita Resendiz, Dowell Hall 103
2:00 to 2:30 Break
2:30 to 4:30 Free Afternoon or Computer Lab, Dowell Hall 103
5:30 to 7:00 Graduation Banquet -- Brown Dining Room, Conference Center
Check-in computers
Saturday, August 9
7:30 to 9:00 a.m. Breakfast in Morsels
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